Bechdel Test
Let's use data visualization to evaluate gender and race representation in movies.
Welcome to our next project “Next Bechdel”: Visualizing Race and Gender Representation In American Movies.
In this project we’ll use data visualization techniques to analyze how the top 50 movies of 2016 performed according to the Bechdel Test and other representation-based tests.
The Bechdel-Wallace Test — often abbreviated to the “Bechdel Test” — evaluates movies based on two simple questions:
- Does the movie have at least two named female characters?
- And do those characters have at least one conversation that is not about a man?